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When creating a seamless value chain, it is essential to focus on the customer. However, information, data, and processes are key when planning the complex merger of processes, technologies, and culture. Additionally, a successful value chain recognizes that partners, vendors, suppliers, and employees play a vital role to ensure that customer values are both recognized and realized.

cynthia chew Success for Fast Growing Companies: What Every Small and Midsized Business Needs to Know CRM Success for Fast Growing Companies: What Every Small and Midsized Business Needs to Know If you receive errors when attempting to view this white paper, please install the latest version of Adobe Reader. Founded in 1998, NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) is the leading provider of on-demand, integrated business management software for growing and midsize businesses. With thousands of customers globally using NetSuite's
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Let me start this blog post with a huge disclaimer: I have no intentions of wilfully beating up on SAP whatsoever!
Sure, the enterprise applications titan has lately been embroiled in an intellectual property lawsuit with archrival Oracle over improper use of support data through its TomorrowNow third-party support (recently discontinued) subsidiary.
As if this wasn't enough, SAP is being

Although Click Commerce is a thriving provider of on-demand supply chain management (SCM) solutions for a variety of worldwide industries, it does have to face up to a variety of challenges, some of which are of its own making.

By espousing its namesake 5th generation of products that preserves flexibility and provides much more of its own ‘must have’ collaborative applications (i.e. SCM and CRM), J.D. Edwards may start looking forward to the future with its new winning attitude.

Maintaining an effective supply chain is clearly an integral part of a manufacturing company’s livelihood. Using Web-enabled tools, the enterprise is able to transform the procurement function of its supply chain from a cost center to a powerful business unit.

White papers offer no shortage of advice about what best practices can lead to enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation success. But equally important is a thorough understanding of what practices are to be avoided during an implementation. This white paper reviews four “worst practices” that should be avoided at all costs—unless you want to go out of your way to cause your ERP implementation to fail.

cynthia chew Common ERP Implementation Mistakes With IFS Implementation, you gain the maximum value for each solution you install based on IFS Applications. With pre-packaged, best practice accelerators from your industry, your new solution is up and running – on-time and on-budget. Using IFS Navigator, you maintain transparent visibility and control over your project. Source: IFS Resources Related to Four Common ERP Implementation Mistakes : Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (Wikipedia) Implementation (Wikipe
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Here are four worst practices that can contribute to the failure of an enterprise resource planning implementation—or the implementation of any other enterprise software, for that matter. Protect your investment and prevent disaster by steering clear of these major mistakes.

cynthia chew Ways to Botch Your ERP Implementation Process Originally published – February 13th, 2008 In the process of implementing an enterprise application suite like enterprise resource planning (ERP) or enterprise asset management (EAM), an almost infinite number of things can go wrong. A successful implementation depends not only on selection of the correct application, but on the quality of the communication between you and your application vendor or implementation consultant. Some of the more disastrous E
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This article defines process manufacturing; discusses its formulation, packaging, and pricing issues; talks about interfaces; and provides cautions and caveats.

cynthia chew Manufacturing Software: A Primer Introduction Process manufacturing has unique requirements differentiating it from other types of manufacturing. When selecting software for the process industry, special attention and emphasis should be placed on these requirements to ensure that a company can operate at optimal levels, consistent with how it does business and not with how the software lets the company do business. Be aware of both large software vendors, who try to be all things to all companies,
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use—which puts up a barrier to receiving potential benefits. Systems with integrated search functionality and Web-like interfaces can make ERP solutions easier to use. Learn how to evaluate ERP software for its usability, so you can avoid investing in platforms that aren’t evolved toward usable and efficient interfaces.

cynthia chew edition, consultant and author Cynthia Rettig claims that “enterprise software in large organizations has not delivered on its promise to fully integrate and intelligently control complex business processes while remaining flexible enough to adapt to changing business needs.” software applications and the data they process — are variegated patchworks, containing 50 or more databases and hundreds of separate software programs installed over decades and interconnected by idiosyncratic, Byzantine and
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Online internet bank NetBank suffered an embarrassing security exposure late last week when a customer discovered he had access to more funds and information than his own.

cynthia chew insured institution. According to Cynthia Bonnette, spokeswoman for the FDIC, Significant implications for security and privacy are raised by this reported incident. Market Impact Incidences like the one at NetBank affect not only the institution in question, but the entire online internet banking community. Consumers read about incidences like this and become skeptical about the security of online banking in general. In a letter to its financial institutions, even the FDIC expresses concern over the
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